Archives - 19 January 2013, Saturday

The digital currency, still widely dismissed by many as Internet play money, gained an unprecedented foothold in the traditional banking world. In December, a Bitcoin currency exchange in France became the first to officially operate within the European financial system. Bitcoin-Centr...

I'm not saying we should all run out and convert all our dollars to bitcoins. In fact, I'm definitely not saying that, as the things you can buy with bitcoin are now very scarce. Its popularity really peaked in 2011, two years ago. As you know, I'm a huge fan of government. I generall...

Vitalik Buterin, writer for Bitcoin Magazine (@BitcoinMagazine ), describes today’s rally that has taken the Bitcoin BTC/USD exchange rate above its high water mark from 2012. Excerpts: “Today’s maximum of $15.68 at the time of this writing [is] the highest that the Bitcoin price has ...

Bitcoin is a new digital currency. You can use it to buy things on the Internet, or send money to your friends. Wordpress, 4Chan, WikiLeaks and thousands of other sites have started to accept Bitcoin. In the last six months, transaction volume has doubled to over 5 million USD daily. ...

“The first [conference], entitled “The Future of Payments”, will take place in San Jose, California on May 17-19, and the second, named “unSYSTEM”, will happen in Vienna on 1-3 November.” - “The two conferences have radically different themes. For the 2013 conference in San Jose, the ...

So yesterday I got drunk and started talking about bitcoin. A lot of people were sceptic but and the end of the evening they were convinced. In my drunkiness I promised the bartender I would come by later and install him all the tools for accepting bitcoins. I am located in Brussels, ...

Subscribe to our newsletter at http://www.goldmoney.com/goldresearch . Episode 88: GoldMoney's Andy Duncan talks to Doug Casey, the founder and chairman of Casey Research and the author of a new book called Totally Incorrect. They discuss the current state of global finance and the ch...

Bitcoin is a decentralized digital currency. It is an open source project under active development. How to buy bitcoins More info @ bitcoin.org and bitcoin.it : Getting Started FAQ Common Myths Bitcoin Merchants Community rules Do not use URL shortening services: always submit the rea...

Buying Bitcoin Through Google Checkout : Unsurprisingly, [neither] Apple nor Google will ever allow for digital currencies to be exchanged through their systems as a part of their TOS. btcnow.net used to, but apparently Google put the kibosh on that some time ago. fireduck asked in th...

Stop the new Internet Surveillance Law: There are rumors that the Obama Administration will propose a far-reaching new Internet surveillance law, dramatically expanding the the Communications Assistance to Law Enforcement Act (CALEA), which forces forcing telephone companies to build ...

Assume, we create an alternative cryptocurrency ("InflationCoin") based on the bitcoin software with one change to the protocol: The Block reward is constant, e.g. 50 InflationCoin Technically this would work just like Bitcoin while avoiding one of Bitcoin's most discussed characteris...

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Re: The real false flag..... while you are worried about the second amendment January 19, 2013, 07:32:19 PM #5 Quote from: Littleshop on January 19, 2013, 07:26:24 PM Quote from: The Fool on January 19, 2013, 06:56:58 PM How can the people defend their other rights without the 2nd ame...

Bitcoin isn't "backed" by anything, but what gives it value is the same thing that gives all forms of money their value...its utility for exchange. Paper currencies became popular and valuable because they were more convenient for exchange than physical gold and silver. Digital curren...